MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Complaint correctly dismissed for untimely service but incorrectly dismissed with prejudice… Halligan reversed. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, lacerated tendon diagnosis
VERDICT: Defense, claimed untimely diagnosis of lacerated tendon from dropped glass. [Read more…]
Med-mal, blindness, proportionate duty, loss of chance
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Proportionate duty and loss of chance instructions improperly refused in blindness case, defense verdict reversed… jury improperly polled… Wilson reversed. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, ophthalmological/medical malpractice
VERDICT: Defense, ophthalmological/medical malpractice, alleged failure to timely diagnose fulminant IIH and make emergency referral for brain shunt resulting in legal blindness. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, ophthalmological/medical malpractice
VERDICT: Defense, ophthalmological/medical malpractice, alleged failure to timely diagnose fulminant IIH and make emergency referral for brain shunt resulting in legal blindness. [Read more…]
Property access claims
PROPERTY ACCESS claims properly disposed of on summary judgment. . . Gilbert affirmed (IOR I-3(c)). [Read more…]
False Claims Act, qui tam, Salish Kootenai College
FALSE CLAIMS ACT: Qui tam against Salish Kootenai College for allegedly providing false student reports to retain grants improperly dismissed on basis of tribal sovereign immunity, remanded for application of White as to whether College, as a “person” under FCA, functioned as arm of Tribe… Morris reversed. [Read more…]
Sanctions, divorce attorney, $10,000 Rule 11
SANCTIONS: Husband’s divorce attorney properly ordered to pay $10,000 Rule 11 sanction to Court, although consideration of lawyer’s physician wife’s income improper… Langton affirmed (IOR I-3(d)). [Read more…]